One of the worst things to ever happen to U.S. business management in recent years has been the explosive growth of deadweight HR Departments.

They’ve become front-line enforcers of woke DEI policies, which are, at best, wastes of time and money and more often advocates in large corporations for censorship, racial preferences, and fad issues that have nothing to do with performance.

HR’s were created in an attempt to protect firms from lawsuits in the wake of two 1998 liberal Supreme Court decisions that held companies could be less exposed to racial and gender harassment and discrimination suits if they could prove they’d made a “good faith” effort to prevent it.

But a few years ago, an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission task force found “no evidence” that HR training actually reduces harassment or misconduct.

Ryan Breslow, the CEO of the fintech company Bolt, blew the lid off of this craziness and has fired his entire HR team l. Why? Because they were “creating problems that didn’t exist,” and had become part of “a culture of not getting things done and complaining a lot. Those problems disappeared when I let them go.”

Good cost-cutting advice for all of corporate America.

Octavius Black, co-founder of the MindGym consultancy, agrees it’s time for more firms to sunset HR: “It has become a cost center with a moral purpose, rather than a business function with a commercial purpose.”